On Monday, a state circuit judge in St. Louis issued an order keeping the injunction in place and allowing the clinic to ask the Administrative Hearing Commission to reverse the Department of Health’s license denial, according to a statement from Planned Parenthood. Under the circuit judge’s order, Planned Parenthood was allowed to remain open and perform abortions through Friday.

Friday, Administrative Hearing Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi granted Planned Parenthood a stay against the license denial, which allows the clinic to remain open and providing abortions until August.

The AHC will have a hearing on Aug. 1 to determine whether the state was legitimate in not renewing the clinic’s license.

After an inspection of the clinic in March, the state expressed concern, citing three “failed abortions” that required additional surgeries and one that caused life-threatening complications for the mother, when naming problems, as reported by The Associated Press.

Dr. Colleen McNicholas, OB-GYN at Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood in the St. Louis Region, said in a statement that the clinic is “relieved” to have the stay granted on Friday.

“This has been a week-to-week fight for our patients and every Missourian who needs access to abortion care. There are two things that remain unchanged in Missouri: the uncertainty our patients face, and our will to continue fighting for their right to access safe, legal abortion," McNicholas said.

Since May 24 when Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill that prohibited pregnancy terminations after eight weeks of pregnancy, Missouri’s last standing abortion clinic has been fighting to remain open.

If the clinic does lose its license, it will be the first state without an abortion clinic since a year after Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973 and abortions were made legal nationwide.

“Planned Parenthood will continue responding to these political attacks on reproductive rights and health care with unrelenting vigor. Because abortion is health care and every person deserves the right and freedom to decide when and whether to be pregnant — no matter what,” Planned Parenthood said in a statement.